Tomas Lindahl, Paul Modrich and Aziz Sancar were awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry on Wednesday for their studies of DNA repair. They shared the prize of 8 million Swedish kronor (around $960,000). The prize was announced by Goran K. Hansson, permanent secretary of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, which awarded the prize.

Böylece Aziz Sancar bilim alanında Nobel kazanan ilk türk oldu.